Are You a 21st Century Digital Boy (or Girl)?
D
o like computers? Or have you heard about these new fangled magic boxes called computers, but don't actually own one? Well guess what? 80% of all college students can answer this quiz perfectly! So let's find out how out of touch you are ...
1. WWW stands
World Web Watch.
World Wide Wrestling.
World Wide Web
2. To increase the performance speed of your computer, you would generally
increase the RAM, and increase the amount of free disk space.
lower the screen resolution, and decrease the RAM.
buy a cordless keyboard, a bubble jet printer and a piece of wool
to pull over your eyes.
3. Sites like 'Yahoo' and 'Excite' are
search engines.
portals.
both.
4. We need software for our computers because it
gives your RAM instructions to carry out.
gives your CPU instructions to carry out.
gives your MOM something to thing about.
5. The following companies have met Microsoft in court:
Apple; Netscape.
Sun Systems; General Electric.
Netscape; General Electric.
6. What series of product made Microsoft filthy stinking rich?
OS/2.
Linux.
Windows.
7. The higher the bandwidth my modem operates with,
the faster my screen refreshes.
the slower the internet seems to be.
the faster the internet seems to be.
8. DVD players are different from CD's because
information is written on the disk digitally.
they cost about an arm and a leg more.
both.
9. A Zip Drive is
an external, super duper hi-density floppy drive.
an internal, super duper processor that compresses files.
an eternal, super duper spiritual plane on which computers come
together to become one.
10. People have 'sex' over the internet with
other lonely people.
a keyboard, and monitor, and a bucket full of imagination.
both.
11. Linux is
an operating system created by a crazy European named Linus.
a new microprocessor that makes Intel's Celeron look like the second savior.
a programming language Microsoft used in Window 98, without the
developer's permission.
12. '21st Century Digital Boy' is
the name of a William Gibson novel.
the name of a Bad Religion song.
both.